• Eek, Saturday is MP3 Experiment 8. Um! "Wear a white shirt and bring a bag containing the above-mentioned items."

• Haha, Postmasters is doing a summer group show of art arranged by color. Bring a picture of your couch and you'll know what matches, you heathen.

• The Fighter and Iron Man 2 and Let Me In are all new on Netflix Instant, so, just stay home. (Also, apparently Brazil just finally came out on Blu-Ray?) And there's some… Harry Potter thingie? IDK.

• Sunday afternoon in Brooklyn is a competition between 25 amateur ice cream makers.

Or you could stay home and read some [...]

Extra special thanks to our columnists this week, and if you are bored this weekend, why not go read them? There's Mr. Wrong, our House Apologist, our Answer Lady, our Puzzlemaster, that guy who hates rich people, and Macho Sporty Spice, a chick with an ax to grind, that girl who dated a loser for a really long time and a guy with a TV. They are all wonderful. Also! Some random most popular tags this week include The Recession, WTF and Swine Flu.

• New on Netflix Instant: that Aaron Eckhart movie that no one saw that you never wanted to see!

• Gloria is the midnight movie at IFC this weekend!

• Ryan Trecartin at PS1 on Sunday. (All the art gays in one place!)

• I will totally watch "TNT's non-groundbreaking but absorbing" new alien show, "Falling Skies," on Sunday.

• It is the Northside Festival in Brooklyniamsburgpoint if you like music and festivities and lots of them. (Yacht is playing Sunday and everyone seems excited.)

• And a kooky group show opens at the gallery called Canada on Sunday. It's about… [...]

Things happened this week. They usually do. If there was an index for the things that happened this week, it would look like this.

• Carson, Anne, poem by • Ducks, conflict against wind of • Fandom, rationalizations for • Lee, Tommy, correspondence from • Men, unkillable desire to do sex to people of • Oprah's book club, commentary by • Palin, Sarah, hunting abilities of • Tumblr, fears about • Water, privatization of

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